Adult Swim’s Dana Snyder and FRED’s Ken Plume set out to have a literate conversation between two pals, but inevitably devolve into a verbal, and funny, free-for-all full of bickering, infighting, and the special kind of male bonding that comes from conflict expressed through the podcast medium. This, dear friends, is the online experience!

Also, Ken mentions that Eadler has a picture of himself of Twitter ordering the first drink at the outside bar at Trader Sam's Grog Grotto. I have included the photo here so you don't have to bother looking for Eadler on Twitter.

Friday, May 22, 2015

On the newest Ken PD Snydecast Plume talks about the differences between the Peter Pan ride at Magic Kingdom vs Disneyland.

They are very different. To start, the Magic Kingdom attraction is two minutes and forty-five seconds long. This is thirty-five seconds longer than the Disneyland version.

Ken discusses the new queue which we will get to tomorrow.Today, let's get to the rides:

LOADING AREA (Disneyland marked as DL, Magic Kingdom is MK)

FIRST SCENE:

SECOND SCENE:
The dog is in the first scene in the Disneyland version. At Magic Kingdom she is in the second scene, outside:

Magic Kingdom has a much longer flyover of London. Disneyland you quickly fly over a few buildings:

THIRD SCENE:
There are very different flyovers of the Mermaid Lagoon and Neverland. Disneyland has more realistic looking mountains. The mountains in Magic Kingdom are very stylized.

It's in the final moments that you can see the substantial differences between the two attractions. Scenes are extended in Florida and there are scenes that are more elaborate. Also things are in a different order:

You may remember Ken talked about how the Magic Kingdom's Cpt. Hook doesn't sound right:

The ship sailing off at the end of the Disneyland attraction is more visually impressive:

A big thanks to Dana and Ken for promoting my book on the newest episode. You canorder it directly from me at www.sesameplacebook.com.

Also for pre-orders get an original Sesame Place token from the Computer Gallery in the 1980s (while supplies last.)

The book will feature over 150 color photographs that cover the storied history of the park. Photographs allow you to see what it was like to visit Sesame Place in 1980, entering through a giant Big Bird head and walking across a massive suspension bridge over the park.

Park designer Eric McMillan created the (now ubiquitous) ball crawl where children can climb through pits of thousands of colored balls. Sesame Place was one of the first places anyone ever experienced this novel idea. In 1980s, Sesame Place also boasted being home to “the nation’s largest collection of computer games” and thousands of children and adults got their very first computer experience at the park.

The book also showcases the park’s growth in the 1990s, where focus shifted to water rides and adding more walk-around costumed characters and stage shows. The 1990s also saw new themed areas; Twiddlebug Land and Elmo’s World.

Special attention is paid to Sesame Place’s A Very Furry Christmas and The Count’s Halloween Spooktacular events. Through photographs and captions we document the amazing parades at Sesame Place.

The book wraps up with Cookie’s Monster Land, the newest area of the park. Sesame Place: Images of Modern America is being released this summer to coincide with the park’s 35th Birthday (Sesame Place doesn’t have anniversaries). The book is designed to appeal to nostalgic fans of the park and theme park aficionados who want to learn the unique history of Sesame Place.

Also, make sure and buy the CD! Once the sell out we will make VOLUME TWO! This is a fantastic CD with new introductions and mini episodes where Ken and Dana are reminded of the details of the recording: